i have outlook 2010 on my windows machine. I just got iphone

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i have outlook 2010 on my windows machine. I just got iphone 5s. I can sync iphone with my outlook, but the attendees on the desktop calendar dont sync and iphone doesnt allow me to invite attendees. Apple support told me to install icloud on my desktop which i did, but that still doesnt sync attendees and it added 2 calendars to my outlook

Yes, the attendees will sync with the companion link software. What I would suggest doing for synchronization, since you are primarily using Outlook and Outlook features, is to consider using companion link with the office 365 cloud. Companion link is very flexible however, in that it will sync with most cloud storge. As long as you are using cloud storage, you should not have to use a cable to sync. The companion link software runs on both your computer and on your phone. Their support for iOS is fairly recent, and not quite as mature as their other products and I am only saying that to be candid with you. I don't know of any problems with iOS and companion link, and I have set them up without a problem, but I haven't used the two together on a daily basis as I have with Outlook and Android.

And as far as using iTunes that is correct you will not have to use iTunes to sync companion link will reside in your desktop and on your phone it will take care of all the syncing for you.

Suppose i want to stick with desktop outlook - can i use companion link for this? So install companion link on my desktop and phone and sync with cord? does anything get stored in cloud? im assuming not because i dont think companion link has a cloud.

Re: office cloud 365, at some point i need to move to a cloud solution. I've been an outlook user for 15 years probably and have gigabytes of archived files. As a matter for fact, the reason i dread getting a new computer is because transferring my outlook data is a pain (and quicken too:)). I wouldnt mind getting your insight on a cloud solution. But i realize its a new question. Can i pay more for this question or resubmit? I guess my questions would be if im going to the cloud, why go with office vs google. I assume i should if i want to continue to use MS office products. But then do i literally work from a web portal to access my outlook? Is anything stored locally? What if interent is down? And can/how do i transfer my current and archive data to office cloud

You can always ask me a follow-up question directly. Just click on my profile and ask the question there and put for Michael Hannigan in the subject and that will make sure that it gets to me even if I am not immediately online are available when you ask the question. You are correct that companion link does not have a cloud but it will work with iCloud (I believe, but I will double check to make sure). The only reason I have a question with iCloud is because it's more "proprietary" than most. You are correct about the office 365 cloud. That would require being on office 2013 which I didn't catch initially. You can always sync with the cable. In fact this is what companion link did originally and it is what excels at. I mean, it does do things that you simply can't get other software to do like syncing with the cloud but it has been a product that was based on syncing using the cable way back to the beginning of the PalmPilot days. With companion link and the cable, there is no doubt that you can do what you are trying to do. It is the iPhone and syncing with the cloud where things become a little bit more questionable because the support has not been there either from Apple nor from Microsoft to make this happen smoothly. Still, companion link will allow you to do it, but you may be best off waiting to rely on the cloud until you do make a move to the office cloud.

You are asking some excellent questions, that are almost exactly the same questions I had when Microsoft infuriated me by announcing they would force us all to the cloud. But the move to the office 365 cloud isn't as bad as one might expect.

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michael, i did some more research and it turns out if i were to use companion link i would have to install their dejaoffice application on my iphone. I didnt want to use a third party contact and calendar app, i rather just use the iphone calendar and contact program. I ended up using google calendar. I already have a gmail account and calendar which i rarely use. But i found an app called gSyncit which is an add-on to my outlook (and free if you sync calendar only which is what i want). It syncs my outlook calendar to my gmail calendar which syncs with my iphone. A bit convoluted, but in practice it's super simple and actually syncs everything accurately (if you recall, my initial problem was that icloud would not sync attendees with outlook and certain people could not accept my iphone calendar invites). ANyway, all seems to be working now.

I was under the impression that you would need your contacts synced as well... but if it's working as you need, then I'm all for leaving it as it is! There are many options, but once you find one that works for your needs - you are good. If you have any questions at any point, feel free to return and ask.

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